Monica Bellucci
Actor /
Model
Long a star in Italy, where she has drawn comparisons to
Sophia Loren,
Monica Bellucci turned heads worldwide as a hipswinging war widow in the 2000 Italian hit
Malena. A former model, Bellucci began her film career in 1990; she made her U.S. feature debut in
Francis Ford Coppola's
Dracula (1992) and proved herself as a leading lady in L'Appartement (1996). She appeared with
Morgan Freeman in
Under Suspicion (2000) and with
Keanu Reeves and
Laurence Fishburne in 2003's
The Matrix Reloaded. In 2004 she played
Mary Magdalene to
Jim Caviezel's
Jesus of Nazareth in the film
The Passion of the Christ.
Women Celebrities